HUTCHINSON, Kan. — After a one week delay, a 35-year-old Hutchinson man was sentenced to a total of three years in prison.
Dominic Vargas entered guilty pleas in the three cases against him back in May and the agreement was that all of the sentences except two would run concurrent to each other. Judge Tim Chambers went along with the agreement which called for 30 months, for possession of methamphetamine, plus another six months for flee and elude. Those two sentences ran consecutive to each other for the controlling sentence of three years.
The latest case against Vargas started when a trooper says he observed Vargas driving and knew him to be an absconder and had warrants for his arrest. He was seen driving in the area of the 900 block of West 4th. The trooper attempted to stop the vehicle and Vargas allegedly refused to pull over. Officers with the Hutchinson Police assisted the trooper with the chase around Hutchinson. At some point, Vargas struck a patrol car during that pursuit.
He then abandoned the vehicle in the 100 block of East 10th and fled on foot and went into a residence in the 100 block of East 11th. Officers set up a perimeter and were able to negotiate with the occupants of that residence to exit the house after about an hour. Four people exited the house and were detained. One of the occupants was Vargas and he was placed under arrest.
The other convictions are for possession of meth, possession of marijuana with a prior conviction, possession of mushrooms, possession of K-2, or synthetic marijuana, felony flee and elude, interference with law enforcement, as well as a number of other misdemeanor traffic offenses.
The two cases involving drugs go back to April of 2013 and September of 2012.